CALL FOR PAPERS

                    Second International Workshop on 
          Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2005)
			http://www.hot-p2p.org

               San Diego, CA, USA, July 21st, 2005
		Co-located with MobiQuitous 2005
                  http://www.mobiquitous.org

	In cooperation with the Italian FIRB Project "WebMINDS"
		http://web-minds.consorzio-cini.it


Scope and Interests 
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are decentralized, self-organizing distributed 
systems that cooperate to exchange data. These systems have emerged as the 
dominant consumer of residential Internet subscribers' bandwidth, and are 
being increasingly used in many different application domains.
In the last few years, research on P2P systems has been quite intensive,
and has produced remarkable results in scalability, robustness, location, 
distributed storage, and system measurements. Consequently, P2P systems
continue to evolve, differentiating today's state-of-the-art from
earlier instantiations such as Napster, KaZaA, Gnutella, and Morpheus.


The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, 
from both industry and academia, in the fields of systems, networking, 
and theory, and to represent an occasion to share latest research results 
and ideas on P2P systems, thereby promoting research activities in this area.  
In addition to regular research papers to be selected on standard peer review, 
the program of the workshop will include invited talks, position papers, 
and panel discussions. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

	* P2P systems and infrastructures
	* Applications of P2P systems
	* Performance evaluation of P2P systems
	* Workload characterization for P2P systems
	* Trust and Security issues in P2P systems
	* Network support for P2P systems
	* Protocols for resource managements/discovery/scheduling and their evaluation
	* Fault tolerance in P2P systems
	* DHT and other scalable lookup algorithms
	* P2P and autonomic computing
	* P2P systems and Grids


Paper Submission:
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HOT-P2P 2005 invites author to submit papers on original and unpublished work
in either PostScript or PDF format. Papers must be written in English and should 
follow the IEEE  format (single spaced, two columns, 10pt, Times font) and not 
exceed 8 pages including figures. Each submission must comprise a short abstract, 
a complete list of authors and their affiliations, the name of a contact person 
for correspondence, complete with postal in and e-mail addresses. 
Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS web page 
http://edas.info/Conferences.cgi?c=4526 in three steps:

   1. Creation of a personal account on EDAS (for authors that never registered before)
   2. Registration of the paper
   3. Upload of the paper in either PostScript or PDF format.



Proceedings Publication:
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The proceedings of the Hot-P2P '05 will be published by the IEEE.
At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for 
the conference in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings 
and to be scheduled for presentation.


Important Dates  (NEW DEADLINE)
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	* Paper Submission: 		April 5th,2005 * NEW DEADLINE *
	* Notification of Acceptance: 	April 26th, 2005
	* Camera-ready version due:  	May 9th, 2005
	* Workshop date:		July 21st, 2005


Program Chairs
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Cosimo Anglano, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro" (Italy)
Luigi Mancini, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy)

Program Committee (In Progress)
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* Samrat Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
* Giovanni Chiola, Universita' di Genova (Italy)
* Walfredo Cirne, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brasil)
* Michele Colajanni, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
* Antonio Corradi, Universita' di Bologna (Italy)
* Paul Ezhilchelvan, University of Newcastle (UK)
* Luisa Gargano, Universita' di Salerno (Italy)
* Giulio Iannello, Universita' Campus Biomedico, Roma (Italy)
* Mario Lauria, Ohio State University (USA) 
* Laurent Lefevre, INRIA (France) 
* Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego (USA)
* Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita' di Torino (Italy)
* Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University (USA)
* Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine (USA)
* Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)